provost

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n.〈英〉大學(xué)中某些學(xué)院的院長(zhǎng)（稱(chēng)號(hào)）；教區(qū)長(zhǎng)；（某些蘇格蘭城市的）市長(zhǎng)；〈美〉（某些大學(xué)的）教務(wù)長(zhǎng)

He was rejected as Provost of King’s for the more prosaic reason: that he was not an Etonian.
他被拒絕作為皇家學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)，是出于更加缺乏想象力的理由，即他不是一個(gè)伊頓學(xué)派的人。
If a provost or a group of administrators came to you with plans to cut a literature department, what's your response?
如果一位院長(zhǎng)，或者許多管理人員找到您，說(shuō)他們將要裁掉某個(gè)文學(xué)系，您會(huì)作何反應(yīng)？
Universities should pitch in and help schools do better, says Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London.
倫敦大學(xué)學(xué)院的副教務(wù)長(zhǎng)邁克爾?沃頓說(shuō)，大學(xué)應(yīng)該主動(dòng)幫助中學(xué)進(jìn)行改善與提高。

That's a beautiful new lounge that the Provost's Office allowed us to build for physicists and chemists, or whoever happens to be in the building.
那是個(gè)很漂亮的新休息室,教務(wù)處特許,專(zhuān)門(mén)為物理系和化學(xué)系的學(xué)生們修建的,那棟樓里的其他人也可以進(jìn)去
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

Mr. KEELING: Well, everything I've heard from the provost and the chancellor indicates tomorrow.
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Rice, a former Stanford provost and a classical pianist, also plans to bring more Iranian students here.
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Universities should pitch in and help schools do better, says Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London.
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In some colleges and universities in the United States, a provost is an official who deals with matters such as the faculty and the courses of study.
In the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches, a provost is the person who is in charge of the administration of a cathedral.

大教堂的教長(zhǎng)；新教區(qū)主教堂的主持；(新教在德國(guó)地區(qū)的)負(fù)責(zé)地區(qū)主教堂的牧師；修道院的修士長(zhǎng)